Woods joins a list of legendary golfers who have received special exemptions from the USGA that includes Jack Nicklaus (seven times), Arnold Palmer (five times) and Tom Watson (five times).
Talor Gooch will not be trying to qualify for next month’s US Open. And let’s just say it’s a pretty big lock that the USGA will not extend him a special exemption like it did overnight for Tiger Woods.
While holding its annual meeting, the USGA announced that the US Open and US Women’s Open will be held a week apart in 2036, and both will be contested at Shinnecock.
To distill Wyndham Clark to tragedy may seem wildly unfair to him, his story, his play. But to define him by what he’s shouldered, from where he’s been to where he’s come – and knowing his mum would approve – says more about him than a score ever will.
Wyndham Clark’s caddie, John Ellis, points to a career-defining intervention three years ago that laid the foundation for his US Open victory Sunday at Los Angeles Country Club. It was the first round at the 2020 Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, and Clark had made three bogeys in four holes. He fell to two over Read more…
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